Join us for a very special performance by Eve Ewing, Sarah Kay, and Mahogany L. Browne.

Eve is 2017's recipient of the SWACC! Focus Fellowship at AIR Serenbe. This award residency supports a spoken word artist with a commitment to community and collaboration. Sarah, an alumni of AIR Serenbe and now a member of our National Advisory Council, will collaborate with Eve for a week of this residency. Mahogany, recipient of the 2016 SWACC! Focus Fellowship, returns to join Eve and Sarah on the stage for a remarkable afternoon of poems performed live.

$20Doors at 1pmShow at 2pmBook signing presented by Hills & Hamlets after the show.

Eve Ewing is a sociologist of education whose research is focused on racism, social inequality, and urban policy, and the impact of these forces on American public schools and the lives of young people. She is a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago; in 2018, she will begin as Assistant Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Currently, she is developing a book manuscript based on her dissertation, "Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago’s South Side," explores these topics in the context of the 2013 public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community.

Eve is also an essayist and poet. Her first collection of poetry, essays, and visual art, Electric Arches, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in fall 2017. Her work has been published in many venues, including Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, Union Station, and the anthology The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee, a finalist for the Pamet River Prize, and a scholarship recipient for the New Harmony Writers Workshop. She co-directs Crescendo Literary, a partnership that develops community-engaged arts events and educational resources. Crescendo's projects include the Emerging Poets Incubator and the Chicago Poetry Block Party. Eve is one-half of the writing collective Echo Hotel, alongside Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. Learn more about Eve.

Sarah Kay is a poet from New York City who is perhaps best known for her talk at the 2011 TED conference, which has been viewed over nine million times online. Sarah has been invited to share her work on such diverse stages as the the Malthouse Theater in Melbourne, Australia; The Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen, Denmark, the United Nations and Carnegie Hall in New York City, among hundreds of other venues around the world. She is the author of three books of poetry: No Matter the Wreckage (Write Bloody, 2014), B (Hachette Books, 2015), and The Type (Hachette Books, 2016). A passionate educator, Sarah has worked with education organizations like the National Association of Independent Schools and the International Baccalaureate Organization among many others, in order to further her work with Project VOICE: challenging traditional notions of literacy, promoting empowerment through self-expression, and expanding access to creativity education. Take a look at Sarah's latest news and projects here.

Mahogany L. BrowneThe Cave Canem, Poets House, and AIR Serenbe SWACC! Focus Fellowship alum, is the author of several books including Redbone (nominated for NAACP Outstanding Literary Works), Dear Twitter: Love Letters Hashed Out On-line, recommended by Small Press Distribution & About.com Best Poetry Books of 2010. Mahogany bridges the gap between lyrical poets and literary emcee. Browne has toured Germany, Amsterdam, England, Canada and recently Australia as 1/3 of the cultural arts exchange project Global Poetics. Her journalism work has been published in magazines Uptown, KING, XXL, The Source, Canada's The Word and UK's MOBO. Her poetry has been published in literary journals Pluck, Manhattanville Review, Muzzle, Union Station Mag, Literary Bohemian, Bestiary, Joint & The Feminist Wire. She is the co-editor of forthcoming anthology The Break Beat Poets: Black Girl Magic and and chapbook collection Kissing Caskets (Yes Yes Books). She is an Urban Word NYC Artistic Director (as seen on HBO’s Brave New Voices), founder of Women Writers of Color Reading Room, Director of BLM@Pratt Programming and facilitates performance poetry and writing workshops throughout the country. Browne is also the publisher of Penmanship Books, the Nuyorican Poets Café Poetry Program Director and Friday Night Slam curator and recent graduate from Pratt Institute MFA Writing & Activism program. See Mahogany's news and videos here.

It is our honor to join ArtsATL as a sponsor at the presentation of their inaugural Luminary Awards. AIR Serenbe will offer a micro-residency to all of this year's Luminary recipients.

Join ArtsATL for the inaugural award ceremony where we will honor and celebrate success in Atlanta arts and culture in the areas of philanthropy, artistic innovation, community engagement, and catalytic dialogue. The ceremony will feature emcee Lucky Yates and include special performances by Atlanta-based artists. Tickets and more info here.

THE LUMINARY AWARDSKathy and Ken BernhardtThe Amaranth Award for Philanthropic LegacyCelebrates the lifetime contribution of a philanthropist to the cultural landscape of Atlanta.

John McFallThe Beacon Award for Community EngagementAwarded to an organization, individual, or presentation in recognition of the impact they have had in fostering meaningful community engagement in their work.

Zuckerman Museum of ArtThe Catalyst Award for Social DiscourseAwarded to an organization, individual, or presentation that ignited important conversation and dialogue within the arts community that resulted in lasting, positive change.

The Lucky PennyThe Kindle Award for Innovative PracticeAwarded to an organization, individual, or presentation who has radically changed the cultural landscape of Atlanta with their work.

Serenbe Playhouse and AIR Serenbe are proud to announce the 2nd year of a new play development program unlike any other: the New Territories Playwriting Residency, a Writers-in-Residence Program for Outdoor, Site-Specific Plays. For the second year, New Territories will bring three writers to Chattahoochee Hills, GA to develop new outdoor, site-specific theater. 2017 playwrights are Joe Calarco, Jami Brandli, and A. Rey Pamatmat.